Faculty

UVA Engineers to Play Key Roles in Two New Pan-University Institutes Tackling Global Challenges The huge societal challenges of global infectious diseases and a rapidly changing climate are now key transdisciplinary focus areas at the University of Virginia under two newly established, pan-University institutes. The UVA Environmental Resilience Institute and the Global Infectious Diseases Institute

UVA Engineering Leads Pan-University Engineering in Medicine Initiative The University of Virginia will invest $5 million to bring together a diverse group of researchers from the schools of Engineering, Medicine, Nursing and Arts & Sciences to address some of the most complex healthcare challenges of our generation. UVA’s Engineering in Medicine initiative aims to develop

As manufacturers and researchers reach the limits of silicon’s physical and chemical properties, UVA Engineering’s Multifunctional Materials Integration (MMI) initiative seeks to find more advanced semiconductor materials. By Charlie Feigenoff greenwood@cstone.net Since the invention of the transistor 50 years ago, advances in computing have been swept along on a river of silicon. As the most

UVA Engineering Launches Multifunctional Materials Integration Initiative University of Virginia scientists and engineers have launched an initiative to reduce, reuse and recycle heat and energy and create new functionalities in many technologies that form the backbone of modern society. “Multifunctional materials integration,” an interdisciplinary initiative bringing together a team of more than 40 researchers from

In fall of 2015, UVA Engineering announced the establishment of the Link Lab, an interdisciplinary initiative designed to create a world-class center of excellence in cyber-physical systems. The lab itself is under construction, consuming the top floor of the Engineering’s School’s Olsson Hall. Meanwhile, Link Lab faculty members have continued to demonstrate their national leadership

UVA Engineering is celebrating three faculty members who have earned prestigious and selective National Science Foundation CAREER awards. Quanquan Gu, an assistant professor with a joint appointment in the Computer Science and the Systems & Information Engineering departments, received his award for “Scaling up KnowledgeDiscovery in High-Dimensional Data via Nonconvex Statistical Optimization.” The abstract is